34 Bible Verses about Life Purpose

for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:

who has saved us, and by the gospel hath called us to holiness, not in consideration of our works, but in pursuance of his own resolution, and the favour, which having been promised us by Jesus Christ several ages ago,

compleat my joy, by pursuing the same view, living in mutual love, by being unanimous, and cultivating that harmony.

for you are dead to them, and Christ has secured your life with God.

since the salvation of your souls is the reward you receive for your faith.

for it is God that influences your desires and endeavours, out of his benevolence to you.

you, who display the doctrine of eternal life) that in the day of Christ I may have the satisfaction of not having pursued my laborious course in vain.

and if I die, I gain.

As for me, you are perfectly acquainted with my doctrine, my conduct, my designs, my temper, my benevolence, my constancy,

for he hath made us a-new, and form'd us by Christ Jesus to do good works, for which God had before prepared us, that we might live in them.

the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages.

It is by him, that we have a share in the inheritance, which was before allotted to us, in consequence of his design, who executes the whole plan, as he himself had contriv'd it:

for to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

only conduct yourselves in a manner becoming the gospel of Christ, that whether I come to see you, or else am absent, I may have this account of you, that you are stedfastly of the same resolution, and unanimously contend for the faith of the gospel,

for all divinely inspired writings are conducive to instruction, to conviction, to reformation, and the practice of virtue;

Whatever condition God has allotted to any man, let him go on in the same state he was in when he became a christian: this I give as a standing rule to all churches.

now he that hath prepared us for this very state, is God, who hath given us the spirit as a pledge of it.

I press towards the mark for the prize to which God has called me from above by Jesus Christ.

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

if we live by the spirit, let us regulate our actions by the spirit:

be thankful to God for every thing, for so christians are oblig'd to be.

so that for the future he does not pass the rest of this life in gratifying his sensual passions, but in conformity to the divine precepts.

for as the father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the son, to have life in himself;

but these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Messias, the son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name.

as the father who is the source of life hath sent me, and I live by the father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, appointed by God to declare the promise, which Jesus Christ has made of eternal life;

the life is more than meat, and the body is more than raiment.

We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:

for David, after he had serv'd in his time the designs of providence, died and was buryed with his fathers, and was subject to corruption.

who gave himself for the redemption of all mankind: this is what was to be promulg'd in due time:

Jesus said to him, I am the way, and the truth, and the life: no man can come to the father, but by me.

there cannot be greater love than that of a man, who lays down his life for his friends.

this will conciliate the divine favour. and this is the condition of your vocation, since Christ himself has suffer'd for us,

Sentence of death therefore shall not pass upon those christians who do not lead a vicious life.